Elizabeth City State University Watershed Watch students Matravia Seymore, Nicholas Tabron, and Montravias King presented their Summer 2009 research at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS) at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on November 21, 2009. This symposium was a showcase of multidisciplinary undergraduate research scholarship from all 53 state and private colleges and universities and 58 community colleges of North Carolina.

The research presented by these students took place during the Watershed Watch 2009 Program, a joint program between ECSU and the University of New Hampshire. This interdisciplinary course allows students to use a wide range of scientific methods, including water quality testing and satellite imagery analysis to study both the aquatic and terrestrial parts of the entire watershed. Their research titles were:

• Montravias D. King
  Human Impacts on the Water Quality of the Pasquotank - Mentor: Jeff Schloss
   
• Matravia Seymore
  Influences of Shoreline Changes, Rock Types, Hurricanes, and Elevation on Pre-Contact Chowan Indian Culture
  Mentors: Dr. Lloyd Mitchell, Brittany Friend
   
• Nicholas Tabron
  The Effect of Sea Surface Temperature on the Strength of Major Hurricanes, Ivan and Katrina - Mentor: Dr. Jinchun Yuan